If you are in a guild, you can now earn 'Guild Merit Points' for your
guild. You earn these by leveling, getting new realm ranks, completing master levels and
getting certain levels of trade skills.

- Guild Merit Points can be achieved by any character on an account achieving
certain milestones, and are earned for a guild provided that the character is in the
guild. If a character is guildless when he achieves a milestone, no Guild Merit Points are
awarded.

- The rewards are greater for the first time that a character hits a milestone in a
given achievement on that server. Secondary achievements on that server and account will
receive a reduced reward.

- For example, the first time that a player achieves Master Level 5 on a server, his
guild will receive 100 Guild Merit Points. Every additional character on that account and
server will only award 50 Guild Merit Points for Master Level 5.

- Note that these achievements are measured by account and server. So if one
character on an account 'passes' the highest achieving character on that account in that
achievement, then the guild will recieve the first time award.

- Players will receive a message when they've earned guild merit points for their
guild.

- Guilds can spend their guild merit points to get up to five merit bonuses.
- The current guild command is "/gc buff <type>",
where type is:
artifact, crafting, rps, xp or mlxp.
- Merit bonuses cost 1000 guild merit points and will be applied to everyone in the
guild. The bonus provided to the guild by the merit point system, as noted in /gc
info, lasts 24 hours.
- Guild members must have permission from the GM in order to select bonuses for the
guild. ("/gc edit buff Y" would be the command to allow a
certain rank permission to grant the guild bonus buffs.)